Dangers Graf Orlock Wollongong

The Wollongong venue for the Dangers Graf Orlock show was basically a pub/RSL kind of place, free entry, barely any crowd, a few people who had never heard of the bands came for the 'hard rock show'. Made it easier for me to take photos, I'm quite happy with them.

Dangers Graf Orlock - Red Rattler

I saw Dangers and Graf Orlock five times when they were here, and took photos at three of the shows. I liked Dangers a lot but Graf were a little bit underwhelming live. These are from the Red Rattler show in Marrickville, it's a weird place, more live a community theatre than  live music venue, it's full of old couches and milk crates and from what I understand it's completely volunteer run.

I Exist - Tour blog 2

Ollie sings for Fixtures and is on the tour selling merch for Shai Hulud and just being a creep in general.

 But seriously Fixtures are really good, especially for a bunch of high school kids.

Hand of Mercy 

Before Josh 'JJ LaWhore' Nixon joined I Exist he was used to playing to bars full of drunken death metal fans in Blood Duster and Pod People, and I doubt he had ever actually played a youth centre show before. I've since been told Josh played to 1000 kids at civic youth center in 1990, when I was only four years old, so what would I know. Over these years he has honed his sarcastic metal stage presence to a fine art, something which went over the heads of most the underage crowd. "Who's this old dude flashing the horns all the time?" Josh went home after this show, he doesn't usually tour with the band so it was cool for him to do these shows, he'll be playing the Queanbeyan show on the 19th of May.

Jake was nice enough to let a small child named Caed sing the "woman" lines in the song 'Temptress'.

Shinto Katana had two car crashes this day before the show, no one was hurt, but they were all pretty pissed off as you'd expect. This didn't affect their live show, playing as heavy as they usually do and getting more kids to mosh than any of the other bands.

Shai Hulud are some of nicest american's I've ever met, I haven't really met many americans, but they're definatley not arrogant rockstar stereotypes.

The first show at Hot Damn was great and this show was just as good, different crowd, different atmosphere and the audience was really into all the bands. Shai Hulud ended their set by telling us they would play a Miles Away cover, but then playing Linoleum by NOFX, funny guys.

During this show while some of the other bands were playing Aaron took some time to teach Adrian Kelly, Phantoms guitarist, how to play a bunch of the I Exist songs. Kelly was jumping in the van to come along to the Queensland shows and Aaron had a spare guitar so why not teach him a full set in one night and expect him to play two shows the next day. It was hilarious watching these two play un-amped electric guitars outside under some trees lit only by the moonlight. Immediately after the show we drove overnight to Queensland.

Before the show I Exist wandered around a bit in newtown and went to a guitar store, then played some frisbee. We didn't do much at all this day.

Jake took this photo

 Jarred took this photo

Dead Kings - Hot Damn

In January I traveled with Dead Kings for the NSW part of their tour.
These are the photos from the Hot Damn show.

 

I lit this show with a bare 430ex each side of stage, both were a little further back than I would have preferred, but this was the only place I could really set them up out of the way. All taken with my 400D.

And here's some photos of the guys between shows.

Rohan doesn't take protein supplements, he thinks they're "for pussies."

 

This is Paddy he managed the tour, and manages Dead Kings, he's also a graphic designer who does a lot of their merch.

 

 This is Ollie he sings in Fixtures, and he was running a few of these shows.

This photo is just asking to have something Photoshopped into Ollie's hand, so get on it.